MA22094: Professional placement
[Page last updated: 22 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mathematical Sciences |
| Credits: | 60 [equivalent to 120 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 1,200 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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- Academic Year
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| Assessment Summary: | CWPI 100% |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
- the ability to apply knowledge and skills gained at the university to a work programme in a professional context;
- good personal skills in planning and time management, problem solving, decision making and team membership;
- good oral communication and presentation skills, including making a poster presentation at the departmental professional placement conference on the work carried out;
- knowledge of one business/career opportunity in depth and a basic understanding of graduate opportunities using mathematics and statistics;
- an understanding of the application process for graduate employment
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| Synopsis: | You will undertake a professional work programme. Through this, you will develop transferable, personal, and interpersonal skills relevant to a graduate mathematician.
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| Content: | The content varies from placement to placement. In choosing the placement, the university will try to ensure that the work programme offers adequate opportunities for the student to demonstrate competence in the following categories: Self-management and development, Managing tasks, Communicating clearly and effectively, Working with and relating to others, Applying knowledge and Applying initiative in work problems.
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| Course availability: |
MA22094 is Compulsory on the following courses:
Department of Mathematical Sciences
- USMA-AKB32 : BSc(Hons) Mathematics and Statistics with professional placement (Year 3)
- USMA-AKB33 : BSc(Hons) Mathematics, Statistics and Data Science with professional placement (Year 3)
- USMA-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Mathematics with professional placement (Year 3)
- USMA-AKM30 : MMath(Hons) Mathematics with professional placement (Year 3)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
- 好色tv and units are subject to change in accordance with normal University procedures.
- Availability of units will be subject to constraints such as staff availability, minimum and maximum group sizes, and timetabling factors as well as a student's ability to meet any pre-requisite rules.
- Find out more about these and other important University terms and conditions here.
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